List of countries by area

Here is a list of the countries of the world in order of size. Values are given using SI (metric) units. Dependencies are shown with the main country; the total area is also given, but the list is ordered according to the areas excluding dependencies. Areas are including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). See also List of countries, List of countries by population, List of countries by population density, List of countries by continent, List of countries by date of nationhood Orders of magnitude (area).

Table of contents

1 List of countries by area 2 Note 3 List of major geographic bodies, all ordered according to area 4 Remarks 5 Source

List of countries by area

\nThe mentioned countries are listed by the total area they govern. This includes the parent country as well as self governing provinces, enclaves, autonomous territories and nations. \n

Pos	Country	Area (km²)
1	Russia	17,075,200\n
2	Canada	9,976,140\n
3	United States	9,629,091\n
	American Samoa	199\n
	Baker Island	1\n
	Guam	549\n
	Howland Island	1\n
	Jarvis Island	4\n
	Johnston Atoll	3\n
	Kingman Reef	1\n
	Midway Atoll	6\n
	Navassa Island	5\n
	Northern Mariana Islands	477\n
	Palmyra Atoll	12\n
	Puerto Rico	9,104\n
	United States Virgin Islands	352\n
	Wake Island	6\n
	Total	9,639,810\n
4	People's Republic of China (mainland only)	9,596,960\n
	Hong Kong	1,092\n
	Macau	25\n
	Total	9,598,077\n
5	Brazil	8,511,965\n
6	Australia	7,686,850\n
	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5\n
	Christmas Island	135\n
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14\n
	Coral Sea Islands	3\n
	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412\n
	Norfolk Island	34\n
	Total	7,687,453\n
7	*India	3,287,590\n
8	Argentina	2,766,890\n
9	Kazakhstan	2,727,300\n
10	Sudan	2,505,810\n
11	Algeria	2,381,740\n
12	Congo-Kinshasa	2,345,410\n
13	Saudi Arabia	2,218,000\n
14	Denmark	43,094\n
	Faroe Islands	1,399\n
	Greenland	2,166,086\n
	Total	2,210,579\n
15	Mexico	1,972,550\n
16	Indonesia	1,904,556\n
17	Libya	1,759,540\n
18	Iran	1,648,000\n
19	Mongolia	1,565,000\n
20	Peru	1,285,220\n
21	Chad	1,284,000\n
22	Niger	1,267,000\n
23	Angola	1,246,700\n
24	Mali	1,240,000\n
25	South Africa	1,219,912\n
26	Colombia	1,138,910\n
27	Ethiopia	1,127,127\n
28	Bolivia	1,098,580\n
29	Mauritania	1,030,700\n
30	Egypt	1,001,450\n
31	Tanzania	948,087\n
32	Nigeria	923,768\n
33	Venezuela	912,050\n
34	Namibia	825,418\n
35	Pakistan	803,940\n
36	Mozambique	801,590\n
37	Turkey	780,580\n
38	Chile	756,950\n
39	Zambia	752,614\n
40	Myanmar	678,500\n
41	Afghanistan	647,500\n
42	Somalia	637,657\n
43	Central African Republic	622,984\n
44	Ukraine	603,700\n
45	Botswana	600,370\n
46	Madagascar	587,040\n
47	Kenya	582,650\n
48	France	547,030\n
	Bassas da India	0.2\n
	Clipperton Island	6\n
	Europa Island	28\n
	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829\n
	French Guiana	91,000\n
	French Polynesia	4,167\n
	Glorioso Islands	5\n
	Guadeloupe	1,780\n
	Juan de Nova Island	4\n
	Martinique	1,100\n
	Mayotte	374\n
	New Caledonia	19,060\n
	Réunion	2,517\n
	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	242\n
	Tromelin Island	1\n
	Wallis and Futuna	274\n
	Total	675,417\n
49	Yemen	527,970\n
50	Thailand	514,000\n
51	Spain	504,782\n
	Ceuta	?\n
	Melilla	?\n
	Total	?\n
52	Turkmenistan	488,100\n
53	Cameroon	475,440\n
54	Papua New Guinea	462,840\n
55	Sweden	449,964\n
56	Uzbekistan	447,400\n
57	Morocco	446,550\n
	Western Sahara	266,000\n
	Total	712,550\n
58	Iraq	437,072\n
59	Paraguay	406,750\n
60	Zimbabwe	390,580\n
61	Japan	377,835\n
62	Germany	357,021\n
63	Congo-Brazzaville	342,000\n
64	Finland	337,030\n
65	Malaysia	329,750\n
66	Vietnam	329,560\n
67	Norway	324,220\n
	Bouvet Island	58\n
	Jan Mayen	373\n
	Svalbard	62,049\n
	Total	386,700\n
68	Côte d'Ivoire	322,460\n
69	Poland	312,685\n
70	Oman	309,500\n
71	Italy	301,230\n
72	Philippines	300,000\n
73	Ecuador	283,560\n
74	Burkina Faso	274,200\n
75	New Zealand	268,680\n
	Cook Islands	240\n
	Niue	260\n
	Tokelau	10\n
	Total	269,190\n
76	Gabon	267,667\n
77	Guinea	245,857\n
78	United Kingdom	244,820\n
	England	130,395\n
	Scotland	78,782\n
	Wales	20,779\n
	Northern Ireland	13,843 \n
	Anguilla	102\n
	British Indian Ocean Territory	60\n
	British Virgin Islands	153\n
	Bermuda	53\n
	Cayman Islands	262\n
	Falkland Islands	12,173\n
	Gibraltar	6\n
	Guernsey	78\n
	Isle of Man	572\n
	Jersey	116\n
	Montserrat	102\n
	Pitcairn Islands	47\n
	Saint Helena	410\n
	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903\n
	Turks and Caicos Islands	430\n
	Total	263,287\n
79	Ghana	238,540\n
80	Romania	237,500\n
81	Laos	236,800\n
82	Uganda	236,040\n
83	Guyana	214,970\n
84	Belarus	207,600\n
85	Kyrgyzstan	198,500\n
86	Sénégal	196,190\n
87	Syria	185,180\n
88	Cambodia	181,040\n
89	Uruguay	176,220\n
90	Tunisia	163,610\n
91	Suriname	163,270\n
92	Bangladesh	144,000\n
93	Tajikistan	143,100\n
94	Nepal	140,800\n
95	Greece	131,940\n
96	Nicaragua	129,494\n
97	Eritrea	121,320\n
98	North Korea	120,540\n
99	Malawi	118,480\n
100	Benin	112,620\n
101	Honduras	112,090\n
102	Liberia	111,370\n
103	Bulgaria	110,910\n
104	Guatemala	108,890\n
105	Iceland	103,000\n
106	Serbia and Montenegro	102,173\n
107	Cuba	100,860\n
108	South Korea	98,480\n
109	Hungary	93,030\n
110	Portugal	88,941\n
	Azores Islands	2,247\n
	Madeira Islands	794\n
	Total	91,982\n
111	Jordan	92,300\n
112	Azerbaijan	86,600\n
113	Austria	83,858\n
114	United Arab Emirates	82,880\n
115	Czech Republic	78,866\n
116	Panama	78,200\n
117	Sierra Leone	71,740\n
118	Republic of Ireland	70,273\n
119	Georgia	69,700\n
120	Sri Lanka	65,610\n
121	Lithuania	65,200\n
122	Latvia	64,589\n
123	Togo	56,785\n
124	Croatia	56,542\n
125	Bosnia-Herzegovina	51,129\n
126	Costa Rica	51,100\n
127	Slovakia	48,845\n
128	Dominican Republic	48,730\n
129	Bhutan	47,000\n
130	Estonia	45,226\n
131	Netherlands	41,526\n
	Aruba	193\n
	Netherlands Antilles	960\n
	Total	42,679\n
132	Switzerland	41,290\n
133	Guinea-Bissau	36,120\n
134	Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu)	35,980\n
135	Moldova	33,843\n
136	Belgium	32,545\n
137	Lesotho	30,355\n
138	Armenia	29,800\n
139	Albania	28,748\n
140	Solomon Islands	28,450\n
141	Equatorial Guinea	28,051\n
142	Burundi	27,830\n
143	Haiti	27,750\n
144	Rwanda	26,338\n
145	Republic of Macedonia	25,333\n
146	Belize	22,966\n
147	Djibouti	22,000\n
148	El Salvador	21,040\n
149	Israel	20,770\n
	Gaza Strip	360\n
	West Bank	5,860\n
	Total	26,990\n
150	Slovenia	20,253\n
151	Fiji	18,270\n
152	Kuwait	17,820\n
153	Swaziland	17,363\n
154	East Timor	14,874\n
155	Bahamas	13,940\n
156	Vanuatu	12,200\n
157	Qatar	11,437\n
158	The Gambia	11,300\n
159	Jamaica	10,990\n
160	Lebanon	10,452\n
161	Cyprus	9,250\n
162	Brunei	5,770\n
163	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128\n
164	Cape Verde	4,033\n
165	Samoa	2,860\n
166	Luxembourg	2,586\n
167	Comoros	2,170\n
168	Mauritius	1,860\n
169	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001\n
170	Dominica	754\n
171	Tonga	748\n
172	Kiribati	717\n
173	Micronesia	702\n
174	Singapore	692.7\n
175	Bahrain	665\n
176	Saint Lucia	620\n
177	Seychelles	455\n
178	Andorra	468\n
179	Palau	458\n
180	Antigua and Barbuda	442\n
181	Barbados	430\n
182	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389\n
183	Grenada	340\n
184	Malta	316\n
185	Maldives	300\n
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261\n
187	Marshall Islands	181\n
188	Liechtenstein	160\n
189	San Marino	61.2\n
190	Tuvalu	26\n
191	Nauru	21\n
192	Monaco	1.95\n
193	Vatican City	0.44\n

Note

The 193 countries in the list are the 191 United Nations member states plus the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Holy Sée (Vatican City). The list also shows the 11 countries which have a total of 66 dependencies, of which 23 are not permanently inhabited and therefore not in the List of countries by population. The total is 259 countries and dependencies. Compare with List of dependent territories, which lists 70 dependencies.

List of major geographic bodies, all ordered according to area

The list includes the world and the oceans (rank nrs. 1,2,3,4,5,7), Antarctica (nr. 8), the Spratly Islands (claimed by various countries; nr 256) and the 259 countries and dependencies which are also listed above. \n

Pos	Country	Area (km²)\n
1	World	510,072,000\n
2	Pacific Ocean	155,557,000\n
3	Atlantic Ocean	76,762,000\n
4	Indian Ocean	68,556,000\n
5	Southern Ocean	20,327,000\n
6	Russia	17,075,200\n
7	Arctic Ocean	14,056,000\n
8	Antarctica	14,000,000\n
9	Canada	9,976,140\n
10	United States	9,629,091\n
11	People's Republic of China	9,596,960\n
12	Brazil	8,511,965\n
13	Australia	7,686,850\n
13.5	European Union	3,892,685\n
14	India	3,287,590\n
15	Argentina	2,766,890\n
16	Kazakhstan	2,717,300\n
17	Sudan	2,505,810\n
18	Algeria	2,381,740\n
19	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	2,345,410\n
20	Greenland	2,166,086\n
21	Mexico	1,972,550\n
22	Saudi Arabia	1,960,582\n
23	Indonesia	1,919,440\n
24	Libya	1,759,540\n
25	Iran	1,648,000\n
26	Mongolia	1,565,000\n
27	Peru	1,285,220\n
28	Chad	1,284,000\n
29	Niger	1,267,000\n
30	Angola	1,246,700\n
31	Mali	1,240,000\n
32	South Africa	1,219,912\n
33	Colombia	1,138,910\n
34	Ethiopia	1,127,127\n
35	Bolivia	1,098,580\n
36	Mauritania	1,030,700\n
37	Egypt	1,001,450\n
38	Tanzania	945,087\n
39	Nigeria	923,768\n
40	Venezuela	912,050\n
41	Namibia	825,418\n
42	Pakistan	803,940\n
43	Mozambique	801,590\n
44	Turkey	780,580\n
45	Chile	756,950\n
46	Zambia	752,614\n
47	Myanmar	678,500\n
48	Afghanistan	647,500\n
49	Somalia	637,657\n
50	Central African Republic	622,984\n
51	Ukraine	603,700\n
52	Botswana	600,370\n
53	Madagascar	587,040\n
54	Kenya	582,650\n
55	France	547,030\n
56	Yemen	527,970\n
57	Thailand	514,000\n
58	Spain	504,782\n
59	Turkmenistan	488,100\n
60	Cameroon	475,440\n
61	Papua New Guinea	462,840\n
62	Sweden	449,964\n
63	Uzbekistan	447,400\n
64	Morocco	446,550\n
65	Iraq	437,072\n
66	Paraguay	406,750\n
67	Zimbabwe	390,580\n
68	Japan	377,835\n
69	Germany	357,021\n
70	Congo, Republic of the	342,000\n
71	Finland	337,030\n
72	Malaysia	329,750\n
73	Vietnam	329,560\n
74	Norway	324,220\n
75	Côte d'Ivoire	322,460\n
76	Poland	312,685\n
77	Italy	301,230\n
78	Philippines	300,000\n
79	Ecuador	283,560\n
80	Burkina Faso	274,200\n
81	New Zealand	268,680\n
82	Gabon	267,667\n
83	Western Sahara	266,000\n
84	Guinea	245,857\n
85	United Kingdom	244,820\n
86	Ghana	239,460\n
87	Romania	237,500\n
88	Laos	236,800\n
89	Uganda	236,040\n
90	Guyana	214,970\n
91	Oman	309,500\n
92	Belarus	207,600\n
93	Kyrgyzstan	198,500\n
94	Senegal	196,190\n
95	Syria	185,180\n
96	Cambodia	181,040\n
97	Uruguay	176,220\n
98	Tunisia	163,610\n
99	Suriname	163,270\n
100	Bangladesh	144,000\n
101	Tajikistan	143,100\n
102	Nepal	140,800\n
103	Greece	131,940\n
104	Nicaragua	129,494\n
105	Eritrea	121,320\n
106	Korea, North	120,540\n
107	Malawi	118,480\n
108	Benin	112,620\n
109	Honduras	112,090\n
110	Liberia	111,370\n
111	Bulgaria	110,910\n
112	Cuba	110,860\n
113	Guatemala	108,890\n
114	Iceland	103,000\n
115	Serbia and Montenegro	102,350\n
116	Korea, South	98,480\n
117	Hungary	93,030\n
118	Portugal	92,391\n
119	Jordan	92,300\n
120	French Guiana	91,000\n
121	Azerbaijan	86,600\n
122	Austria	83,858\n
123	United Arab Emirates	82,880\n
124	Czech Republic	78,866\n
125	Panama	78,200\n
126	Sierra Leone	71,740\n
127	Ireland	70,273\n
128	Georgia	69,700\n
129	Sri Lanka	65,610\n
130	Lithuania	65,200\n
131	Latvia	64,589\n
132	Svalbard	62,049\n
133	Togo	56,785\n
134	Croatia	56,542\n
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129\n
136	Costa Rica	51,100\n
137	Slovakia	48,845\n
138	Dominican Republic	48,730\n
139	Bhutan	47,000\n
140	Estonia	45,226\n
141	Denmark	43,094\n
142	Netherlands	41,526\n
143	Switzerland	41,290\n
144	Guinea-Bissau	36,120\n
145	Republic of China (Taiwan)	35,980\n
146	Moldova	33,843\n
147	Belgium	30,510\n
148	Lesotho	30,355\n
149	Armenia	29,800\n
150	Albania	28,748\n
151	Solomon Islands	28,450\n
152	Equatorial Guinea	28,051\n
153	Burundi	27,830\n
154	Haiti	27,750\n
155	Rwanda	26,338\n
156	Republic of Macedonia	25,333\n
157	Djibouti	23,000\n
158	Belize	22,966\n
159	El Salvador	21,040\n
160	Israel	20,770\n
161	Slovenia	20,273\n
162	New Caledonia	19,060\n
163	Fiji	18,270\n
164	Kuwait	17,820\n
165	Swaziland	17,363\n
166	East Timor	15,007\n
167	Bahamas, The	13,940\n
168	Vanuatu	12,200\n
169	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	12,173\n
170	Qatar	11,437\n
171	Gambia, The	11,300\n
172	Jamaica	10,991\n
173	Lebanon	10,452\n
174	Cyprus	9,250\n
175	Puerto Rico	9,104\n
176	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829\n
177	West Bank	5,860\n
178	Brunei	5,770\n
179	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128\n
180	French Polynesia	4,167\n
181	Cape Verde	4,033\n
182	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903\n
183	Samoa	2,944\n
184	Luxembourg	2,586\n
185	Réunion	2,517\n
186	Comoros	2,170\n
187	Mauritius	2,040\n
188	Guadeloupe	1,780\n
189	Faroe Islands	1,399\n
190	Martinique	1,100\n
191	Hong Kong	1,092\n
192	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001\n
193	Netherlands Antilles	960\n
194	Kiribati	811\n
195	Dominica	754\n
196	Tonga	748\n
197	Micronesia, Federated States of	702\n
198	Singapore	693\n
199	Bahrain	665\n
200	Saint Lucia	616\n
201	Man, Isle of	572\n
202	Guam	549\n
203	Northern Mariana Islands	477\n
204	Andorra	468\n
205	Palau	458\n
206	Seychelles	455\n
207	Antigua and Barbuda	443\n
208	Barbados	431\n
209	Turks and Caicos Islands	430\n
210	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412\n
211	Saint Helena	410\n
212	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389\n
213	Mayotte	374\n
214	Jan Mayen	373\n
215	Gaza Strip	360\n
216	Virgin Islands	352\n
217	Grenada	344\n
218	Malta	316\n
219	Maldives	300\n
220	Wallis and Futuna	274\n
221	Cayman Islands	262\n
222	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261\n
223	Niue	260\n
224	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	242\n
225	Cook Islands	240\n
226	American Samoa	199\n
227	Aruba	193\n
228	Marshall Islands	181\n
229	Liechtenstein	160\n
230	British Virgin Islands	153\n
231	Christmas Island	135\n
232	Jersey	116\n
233	Anguilla	102\n
234	Montserrat	102\n
235	Guernsey	78\n
236	San Marino	61\n
237	British Indian Ocean Territory	60\n
238	Bouvet Island	59\n
239	Bermuda	53\n
240	Pitcairn Islands	47\n
241	Norfolk Island	35\n
242	Europa Island	28\n
243	Tuvalu	26\n
244	Macau	25\n
245	Nauru	21\n
246	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14\n
247	Palmyra Atoll	12\n
248	Tokelau	10\n
249	Gibraltar	7\n
250	Wake Island	7\n
251	Midway Atoll	6\n
252	Clipperton Island	6\n
253	Navassa Island	5\n
254	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5\n
255	Glorioso Islands	5\n
256	Spratly Islands	5\n
257	Jarvis Island	5\n
258	Juan de Nova Island	4\n
259	Coral Sea Islands	3\n
260	Johnston Atoll	3\n
261	Monaco	2\n
262	Howland Island	2\n
263	Baker Island	1\n
264	Kingman Reef	1\n
265	Tromelin Island	1\n
266	Holy See (Vatican City)	0.44\n
267	Bassas da India	0.2\n

Remarks

\n*The European Union is 3,892,685 km² , and would be the 7^th biggest country by area, if it were counted as a country.

Source

\nheader to force TOC\n*CIA World Factbook, 1 August, 2003. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Category:Lists of countries